Students are invited to submit an essay for our 2025 essay contest.
Rituals are our allies in sorrow. They help us appreciate what brief time we had with our loved ones while acknowledging the years we will face without them.
Welcoming a Baby in Advent
Like Mary and all Israel waiting for the Messiah, like a mother welcoming a child, we are to “wait for it with patience.”
Against Bigness, Not Against Health Insurance
I believe in personal responsibility; insurance companies believe in impersonal responsibility.
Lead Kindly Light
And so, feeling blessed by the rich experiences of my ministry, I stand at the start of a new year in the dying days of the old one.
The Writing on the Wall
The writing may still be on the wall, but a different story is being written in our block.
William James’s Grief
Decades of sorrow and searching for clinical evidence have strengthened his resolve, tempered now by experiences that add up to more than disparate bits of empirical data.
Confessions of a Caffeine Addict
My addiction, rather, is of a more respectable variety.
Life in the Cyborg Age: A Conversation with Josh Pauling
And Robin and I really hope that this book can be part of that movement to help people get outside the Machine, throw sand in its gears, and live as creatures—human beings, fully alive.
The True Face of Justice is Compassion
He took the words of Jesus to heart—he rarely judged others. When he passed this year, he left a memory not of condemnation, but of mercy.
Black Friday, Affluenza, and the Election
Instead of appreciating the local and the staggering beauty of our God-given world, as FPR suggests we do, the good life requires million-dollar jaunts into outer space.
A Defense of College Football Rivalries as Local Culture
College football is a local endeavor that should be enacted by those with a connection to that place.
Away From Politics with Kathleen Raine (Then Back Again)
Are we capable of that on a scale that will regenerate our political life? Perhaps not, at least for now, but we can take heart from the knowledge that, over the long course of human events, peoples have built cities that embodied high civic ends.
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